Russian-Doll Caching in Laravel

Popularized in the Rails world, Russian Doll caching is an interesting approach, where you create nested fragment caches for your view logic. If you then link the keys for each of these cached items to the model's "updated at" timestamp, what you get is easy caching for your view logic, and automatic cachebusting whenever the model is updated.

Before we can starting building our caching system, we first need some sample data to cache. So let's use this idea of an index card and notes. In this lesson, we'll build up the necessary route, models, and migrations.

At this point, our experiment is working. However, for any new project, we'd have to copy all these files over. Gross. Let's instead begin creating a reusable package, which we can then pull in through Composer.

So far, we've been building our package in isolation. But, of course, we need to try this out within the context of an actual Laravel project. How exactly do we do that? Well, as it turns out, we can install local repositories with Composer quite easily. In this lesson, we'll do our final tweaks in preparation for Packagist.org.

The initial version of our package is ready to release. Naturally, there are a number of improvements we can make, but what we have so far is good enough for a 0.1.0 release. So let's register our package with Packagist.org.

View the source code for this package on GitHub. Please note that further commits will have been made to the repo, since the release of this video. Have a look at the commit history to review any specifics that interest you.